Project Manager Quality Assurance

Maurice Perdreau, PMP, ACP, JD

740-***-**** ********@*.*******.*** 10 Schofield Place, Beacon, NY

Mr. Perdreau is a systems thinker who has driven both business innovation and execution with Lean and Agile leadership

practices, as both a Scrum Master and a Product Owner.

Mr. Perdreau created the high-performance startup, Seize Your Fame in 2009, winning national and international

recognition as a founder and a product owner. He later joined another startup, Opentopic, which he helped transform

into a fully Agile and Lean organization. He has led 8 separate teams, with 2,000 hours leading Agile projects and

3,000 hours leading traditional projects. Mr. Perdreau bridges both sides of Agile and traditional thinking, acting as a

conduit to those more familiar with traditional methods.

Opentopic, Scrum Master/Project Manager (February 2013 Present) (currently freelancing)

Opentopic is a SaaS content curation application that distributes articles for content marketing.

Led company from ad hoc methodology to Agile/Scrum/Lean best practices, taking a team that was initially hostile to

change into an organization that fully embraces Agile principles

Strategized and implemented the plan that drove first users to the platform, where no other viable options were

available or presented

Primary source of innovation and strategic growth planning. Recommended structural changes leading to company re-

organization to align with Agile/Lean principles, resulting in the transformation of a company with no business plan and

low budget into daily consistent growth of 50 twitter followers a day, while capturing the first users to the platform

Integrated business development, QA testing, coders, and management into a cohesive team, where each were

previously working separately

Created charter system, product backlog, user stories, and bug triage system from scratch, while integrating processes

into the organization

Seize Your Fame LLC, Founder/Product Owner (Aug. 2009 January 2013)

SYF is a tech startup, which specializes in problem-solving based apps and websites

Technology Innovations

Invented Memorizing, an app to help memorize lines, speeches, and poetry, for the iPhone and Android, giving

experience leading iPhone and Android projects for UX design

Founded Uspays.com, a social media site where users get paid to recommend Amazon.com items using personalized

affiliate marketing, using PHP language-based coding, including video integration for the site, using UX facets to optimize

the site

Product Owner:

Dealt with over 20 programmers with multiple teams, using adaptive leadership, with an average of 3 to 5 developers

per team

Provided hands-on leadership to teams to achieve strategic business objectives

Coached teams in applying test-driven development to achieve high software quality and flexibility

Used rapid prototyping to design innovative technology products that were new to the market, driving continuous

improvement through market feedback

Led 8 separate tech product launches, leading to the achievements and recognitions below

Performed all quality assurance for each product to detect bugs and addressed them through team leadership

Implemented marketing strategies once team delivered final product. Led full Product Life Cycle after product launch

Created and instilled company mission and 5 core values to create desired company culture, modeling it after the

Zappos.com philosophy.

Awards and Recognition

Awarded: “Top 500 Apps in the World.” The Sunday Times (London, UK)

1st Person In History With The Combination of PMP, ACP, JD

“Top 30 Problem Solving Apps In The World.” Ranked Next To Apple’s ‘Pages’ -The Sunday Times

#55 Top Selling iPhone Entertainment App In The United Kingdom, July 2011

Top 500 Selling Educational App For Android In US- May 2012

Recognition of Entrepreneurial Achievement 2009, 2011-The City of New York

Certifications and Training

Project Management Professional certification

2

Agile Certified Practitioner, based on Scrum, XP, and Lean

New York University, training: 85+ total hrs of PM training, 20+ hrs with Agile/Scrum

Skills

Software: Microsoft Office, Mac OS X, Project, Visio, Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, Redmine,

Programming Languages: Objective-C (basic), HTML (basic), CSS (basic), C++ (basic), Python (basic), Java (intermediate)

Languages: French (fluent), Spanish (good), Arabic (intermediate)

Social Media Marketing: Facebook (expert), Twitter (expert), >95th percentile influence score

Education

Harvard University, Information Technology – M.A in Extension Studies, Cambridge, MA (Distance Learning) GPA:

3.33 exp. 2017

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Law Degree – J.D. Cleveland, OH

2009

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service– B.S. Washington, DC

2002

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